I managed to get an Open Genera 2.0 CD (Genera 8.5) which is perfect since I'm still waiting for a new hard disk to try to rebuild the MacIvory debacle from hell, and I have the super sexytime AlphaPC 164LX running Tru64 5.1. After I made the kernel setting changes, enabled the packet filter (and fixed their perms), upgraded the core genera executable to 8.18 and made sure the right CDFS mount options were used, Open Genera starts up: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2715

However, I can't for the life of me get it to NFS to the host system. When I try to define the site to complete the Genera configuration, I keep getting RPC errors trying to mount it. The NFS mount points on the Tru64 host can be mounted on other systems on the network, so I know they work. Setting them to allow access to anyone, without a password, doesn't fix it.

Any ideas? Anyone running Open Genera successfully on their own Alpha? Is it Digital UNIX or Tru64?

I have it on (I think) 4.0E, but haven't done much with it because I really despise the keyboard on that system. Some day I'm going to adapt a decent keyboard and spend more time with it.You might have to mess with soft/hard exports, the way Genera deals with NFS is different than Unix and kind of stuck in the late '80s.

- Is it *supposed* to work (as in, do you have any documentation which mentions it being supported)? - Can you mount shares that are *not* on the host itself?

Reason for asking this is having similar symptoms with an older version of a completely different emulator (simh) on a completely different host OS. The guest OS could not talk to the host OS, but it could talk to anything else on the network. It's apparently a lowlevel niggle with how networking is implemented, and not necessarily related to a problem with the guest or software. Might be something similar on your side too - YMMV.

oulu(2):/home/spectre/# mount harlan:/cdrom testmntWARNING: autoselecting nfs based on : or @ in the device name is deprecated!WARNING: This behaviour will be removed in a future releaseoulu(2):/home/spectre/# ls testmntAXP NOTICE.TEXT;119 quickstart.ps sys.sctDISTRIBUTION README quickstart.text

I don't have the original cdrom, just a tarball; but I did install it (setld -i .); setup nfs, according to what I posted earlier, setup packetfilter in kernel, then created the devices; compiled sudo (so I don't have to run it as root); setup my .VLM and I think that's it. Of course, I'm using the 8.18 binariy; not the stock one.

I have sys.sct copied in /var/lib/symbolics; I changed directories permissions to 755 and files to 644. I think that's all that was requested; and as you see in the telnet session; I can compile a file; therefore use the nfs in write mode; of course I was able to define site and save world.

Note: the "vm" settings are useless on tru64; only good for digital unix.